@pheonix

I assume Meta is ditching E2EE for Instagram DM because they're folding under pressure from various governments demanding they self-police CSAM, extremism, scams, and other contraband on their platforms. And those problems are real, even if the proposed solution of ditching E2EE is absolute madness for a free society.

It's not terribly surprising, especially for a profit-driven company whose business model revolves around online surveillance to drive advertising revenue, and for whom secure direct messages are at best a secondary feature that produces no revenue and generates a lot of hassle for their mods and lawyers.

My prediction is that we'll see a general trend of for-profit companies abandoning E2EE, and especially those running social media platforms. It's all down-side for them. The clock is probably already ticking for WhatsApp, too.

The future is exclusively open source like @signalapp and @VeilidNetwork. Everything else is just a dead man walking.